Brick and mortar store

At 6 o’clock this afternoon, after going downstairs, I stopped by Wumart Supermarket to buy hot pot ingredients for the evening, and some daily necessities – this is the first time I went out to the community for shopping since the last isolation.

There are very few people on the road, there is very little traffic, and few people are walking on the criss-crossing greenway.

We walked to the shopping mall and saw someone setting up a stall in front of Qin Tang Xiaoguan from a distance. I walked up curiously, only to find that their employees were selling fruits, vegetables and some cakes… I went to the store to visit, I saw that the seats inside were all packed up, no one was there, and no lights were turned on. The situation of offline physical stores is evident.

Entering the mall and walking inside, I saw a few pedestrians sporadically, and few stores on both sides were open. The storefront that used to be brightly lit and people came and went, now looks dim, and because some curtains are hung up, it looks a bit desolate. ──The owner of these stores, the performance of this year can be imagined, waiting for their results will not be optimistic .

Thinking back to the year after the epidemic began, many of my relatives, who were in brick-and-mortar stores, closed their doors one after another and went out of business. How many ordinary people like them are there in the huge China?

At the same time, I saw a piece of news today: the AFC Asian Cup will be held in China in 2023. Affected by the epidemic, it is currently difficult for the Chinese Organizing Committee to make commitments and arrangements for next year’s Asian Cup to be held in a fully open mode , so we discussed Later decided to relocate.

This news is connected with the current situation, and I can’t help but think about it, and even sweat it — when is our current state of closure and home? Is there a standard for calling a stop? If there is no standard, there is no measure…

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